Powhatan Ellis

Powhatan Ellis (17 January 1790-18 March 1863) was a US Senator from Mississippi (DR) from 28 September 1825 to 28 January 1826 (succeeding David Holmes and preceding Thomas Buck Reed) and from 4 March 1827 to 16 July 1832 (succeeding Reed and preceding John Black).

Biography
Powhatan Ellis was born in Amherst County, Virginia in 1790, and he was said to have been a descendant of the Powhatan Native American princess Pocahontas. He became a lawyer in Lynchburg in 1814, and he moved to Winchester, Mississippi in 1816. From 1817 to 1825, he served as a judge on the Mississippi Supreme Court, and he served as US Senator from 1825 to 1826 and from 1827 to 1832, and a federal judge from 1832 to 1836. He continued to work as a lawyer until his death in 1863.